Laura Reece Hogan is the author of Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters, University of Nebraska Press, 2023), winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Litany of Flights (Paraclete Press, 2020), winner of the Paraclete Poetry Prize, the chapbook O Garden-Dweller (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and the award-winning nonfiction spiritual theology book I Live, No Longer I (Wipf & Stock, 2017). She is one of ten poets featured in the anthology In a Strange Land (Cascade Books, 2019).

Laura’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Scientific American, Verse Daily, RHINO, America Magazine, Connecticut River Review, Lily Poetry Review, EcoTheo Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Spiritus, Cumberland River Review, Poetry International Online, Psaltery & Lyre, Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review, The Christian Century, Amsterdam Quarterly, Sojourners, SWWIM Every Day, The Night Heron Barks, U.S. Catholic, First Things, Cider Press Review, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, DMQ Review, The Inflectionist Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Cloudbank, The Vassar Review, The Cresset, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, River Heron Review, Dappled Things, Eye to the Telescope, Rock & Sling, Poets Reading the News, Mantis, Anglican Theological Review, LETTERS Journal, The Windhover, ​Santa Fe Literary Review, Reformed Journal, Amethyst, Snapdragon, Riddled with Arrows, Saint Katherine Review, Earth & Altar, the anthologies Beyond the Frame (Diode Editions, 2023), Solo Novo 7/8: Psalms of Cinder & Silt (Solo Press, 2019), Without a Doubt (New York Quarterly, forthcoming 2023), All Shall Be Well (Amethyst Press, 2023), and elsewhere. 

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Laura serves on the poetry advisory board of Wildhouse Press and is the Assistant Poetry Editor of Solum Press. She was a 2023 Oxbelly Writers’ Retreat Fellow. Her essays have been featured in Spirituality and Ekstasis Magazine. Laura teaches and speaks on a range of topics intersecting with spirituality and creative writing. 

Laura earned a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and an M.A. in theology from St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California. She lives in Southern California.